[mythtv-users] HDHomeRun

> Well, some of us were thinking as an external, dual-tuner MPEG-2
> encoder for things like cable, or for those of us who have systems
> that are incapable of playing back HD content. In that case, ATSC is
> useless for us, and we'd rather have NTSC.
>One trick to get HDTV playback on a slower machine is to transcode to a
mid-range resolution or to the native resolution of your tv/projector.
For recording from a cable or sat box it would be better to use the HD
outputs rather than NTSC. With hardware encoding to MPEG4 I could see it
being useful.
Nick